Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-12-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Grand Master Workman Powder
~ is critically i'll with hemorrhage of
the lungs.
Diphtheria is raging near Catlin.
Ills. The schools have been closed
in consequence.
Sixty-four fishermen from Pro-
vincetown, Mass, alone have lost
their lives during the year.
| In railroad collision, on the
Chesapeake and Ohio, near Clifton
Forge, three men were killed.
A gang of horse thieves were
chased by a posse inio the Pan
Handle, Kansas, and three o. them
killed.
Rev. Charles .. Berry, of Wolyer-
hampton, England, declines to ac-
cept the cali to Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn.
Hon. John S. Barbour has been
nominated by the caucus Democrats
of the Virginia Legislature for Uni
ted States Senator.
Three children of Henry Facet,
were burned to death while he and
his wife were attending church in
Point Pleasant, w. Va.
The new census of the city of Char
lesion, s. c., shows a total popula-
fio, IF 6S 2S- Tho xrhita ,,opuia
tion is 1852, the colored 2S,414.
The State Grange of Virginia pro,
tests against the action of the legis-
Iature in displacing farmer by a
politician as commissioner Of agri-
culture.
While deer hunting in Grant Co.,
w. Va, last week, man named
Sissel mistook a companion named
Boyers for buck, and shot and
killed him.
Louis Murray, of Wright county,
Mimi, who attempted a felonions
assault upon Miss May Sylvester,
has been sentenced to ten years
hard labor.
Several hundred Italian laborers,
who were to take the place of strik
ing Knights of Labor miners at
Hazelton, Pa, decided to stand in
with the strikers.
Tom Downing, an old miser who
had boarded his money in a hut
near Clifton, Wis, for twenty years
or more, was found murdered and
his wealth missing.
The rlngleaders of the notorious
Brocking gang Of thieves, of Texas,
who lived in canyons and caves and
stole cattle and robbed stage coach,
es, have been caught.
Two freight trains collided on the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad
near Pittsburg, demolishing loco
motive and eight cars and seriously
injuring fireman Agnew.
Bears are reported to be quite
numerous in Boone county, w. Va,
and the farmers are losing heavily
by the reason of their finest stock
being killed by the beasts.
John Most, the Anarchist, who
was granted a stay of proceedings
in the sentence imposing one years
imprisonment, was released ON So.
600 bail, Mrs. Ida Hoffman going his
| bond.
Fourteen hundred tableware
| workmen in nineteen Pittsburg
glass works have struck work.
The Standard Oil Company has COB
bled the Toledo Oil Company, pay
ing 100000 for the concern.
John Buckley was found dying in
barn, at New Haven, Connecticut,
and near him lay the dead body of
his wife. Buckley was almost starv-
ed to death and his wife had died
from exposure.
Two freight trains, on the Cincin.
natl Southern Railroad, collided at
Darwin, Tennessee. Fireman Will
liam Hutzell was crushed to death,
and Engineer David O'Connell was
manned for life.
San Francisco police brought
Calling gun iuto reqnisition to pre-
vent street rioting at the Chinese
funeral of Lee Way, who was killed
in a factiOnal quarrel between two
Chinese societies.
Mr.. Waddill, Republican, in Vir.
ginia House of Delegates, offered
resolutions to instruct Virginia men,
bers in Congress to oppose all such
tariff legislation as recommended by
President Cleveland.
A passenger train on the st. Louis,
Arkanas and Texas Railroad was
stopped by train robbers near Tex. !
arkana, and the express car, mail
and passengers relieved of all cash |
to the amount of $4,000.
Thousands OF gallons of oil leaking
from tank in Reading, Pa, perco.
lated into the cellars of neighboring
houses, and Howard and Annie /
Wolk, children, entering one of the
cellars with a lighted candle, were
frightfnlly burned by the explosion
that followed.
Miss Bessie Higgs, of Chambers
burg, Pa, was sentenced to be con
fined three days in Jail for taking
AWAY neighbours front door steps
q Halloween frolir. The trick
anne near breaking the limbs of sew
raj Of the neighbours family.